Piloting Practice Supervision for the Government Counseling Cadre Lessons and Reflections from Two Pilot Locations in Sri Lanka
Foundation, The Asia | September 2020
Abstract
In 2005, following the recommendations of the Mental Health Policy of 2005 - 2015, a cadre of Counseling Assistants (CAs) were introduced to the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Social Welfare. The Ministry portfolio has been revised many times since then, an important change being the breaking of the Ministry into two, and designated as “Social Services” and “Women’s and Child Affairs”. The two Ministries have a counseling cadre of over four hundred spanning an island wide reach, based in divisional or district secretariats.
Counselors attached to the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs and the Ministry of Social Services were introduced with a pilot model of “practice supervision” in 2019. It was The Asia Foundation’s mapping studies (TAF 2018) that led to the pilot project, with its aim of building on the existing peer support mechanisms available for the counselors. Two locations were selected for the pilot project, one from the North Western Province and the second from the Eastern Province. As this paper discusses, this piloted model of practice supervision has evolved significantly from its initial conceptualization: from one on one clinical supervision to a group exercise.
Citation
Foundation, The Asia. 2020. Piloting Practice Supervision for the Government Counseling Cadre Lessons and Reflections from Two Pilot Locations in Sri Lanka. © The Asia Foundation. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/12530.Print ISBN
978-955-0168-54-5
Keywords
Alleviating Poverty
Anti-Poverty
Extreme Poverty
Fight Against Poverty
Global Poverty
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Indicators Of Poverty
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Eradication
Poverty Analysis
Poverty In Developing Countries
Poverty Reduction Efforts
Urban Poverty
Social planning
Social policy
Social administration
Social security
Social services
Social welfare
Poverty
Unemployment
Development Indicators
Environmental Indicators
Economic Indicators
Educational Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Low Income Groups
Socially Disadvantaged Children
Rural Conditions
Rural Development
Social Conditions
Urban Development
Urban Sociology
Income Distribution
Demographic Indicators
Social Justice
Poor
Economic forecasting
Health expectancy
Social groups
Political participation
Distribution of income
Inequality of income
Developing countries
Rural community development
Mass society
Social change
Social policy
Social stability
Population
Sustainable development
Peasantry
Urban policy
Urban renewal
Social change
Social accounting
Inequality of income
Economic growth
Quality of Life
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